Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
Portrait by Brady-Handy, c. 1870–1880
Reid's house, northeast of Xenia
Vice presidential candidate Reid. Photo by Rockwood.
His son, Ogden Mills Reid, the newspaper publisher.
Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.
Greeley, c. 1860s
Horace Greeley Birthplace in Amherst, New Hampshire
Early depiction of Greeley's first arrival in New York
Photograph of Greeley by Mathew Brady, taken between 1844 and 1860